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The Supreme Court is hearing a case on a program that protects some Dreamers

USA TODAY spoke with four DACA recipients in Austin, Texas, for the Supreme Court to hear the case that will decide the fate of the program. USA Today

Austin, Texas – A lawyer, teacher, graduate student and student gathered in court on the sixth floor one afternoon to discuss their common dreams and nightmares.

The dreams are about a future in the United States filled with high schools and a successful career, home ownership and happy families.

Nightmares are about losing their college loans, driving licenses, jobs – and the only country they call home.

"This feels, in a sense, very surreal," says 25-year-old Anaeli Marcos, who hopes to graduate. from Texas State University's flagship university in May with double master's degrees in social work and Latin American studies. "Sometimes it's a little overwhelming, feeling that your fate is in the hands of people who don't know you."

What is DACA? DACA, Dreamers, TPS? What are they, what do they have to do with Trump, the wall and the shutdown?

In Austin, where Texas state officials brought the initial challenge of both DACA and President Barack Obama's ill-fated effort to extend such protections to 4 million undocumented parents, Pedro Vilalobos's work as a county assistant at risk.

Pedro Vilalobos, 28, a Travis County Attorney at the Blackwell-Thurman Center for Criminal Justice in Austin, Texas, is among DACA recipients awaiting a ruling by the Supreme Court. (Photo: Erich Schlegel, for the USA TODAY)

The state states in court documents that "Congress has never given the executive card a sample to provide legal presence to any foreigner who chooses not to remove, let alone benefit , including work permit, health care, unemployment and a path to citizenship. "

Sitting in a county courtroom that he regularly uses to prosecute crimes, the 28-year-old Vilalobos stated that defeat in the Supreme Court" would end my service to that community. "

" I represent the state, but the state he doesn't represent me, "he said.

Karen Reyes, a pre-service special education teacher, has directed her two-year renewal of DACA by the Christmas season next year, so if she is not provided, the school system may replace her without interruption.

"We live the same voting two years at a time, "says 31-year-old Reis, despite the fact that" I'm not even a parking ticket in my name. "

Vanessa Rodriguez, the youngest of the 21-year-old group, has set plans beyond completion. The University of Texas is in detention because the work permit may disappear with DACA.

"Part of being undocumented is knowing you have to plan," she said. "Will I be able to fund myself in the next phase of my life?"

Surgeons and Rhodes Scientists

Supreme Court access cases, consolidated by many others, are important for several reasons:

• They represent a major power struggle between the executive branch and the legislative branches of Obama. is a presenter, the Trump administration claims it is illegal.

my purpose is a law and a constitution, "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton writes today." No president has the power to change the law simply because he is upset that Congress has failed to pass his preferred legislation. Such behavior is not only unwavering and childish, but more importantly, it digs for the separation of powers, the very basis of constitutional rule. "

• They are pushing ahead with the Trump administration's efforts to remove policies in place of the Obama administration. was able to abolish the Affordable Care Act but was more successful in ending Obama's Clean Power Plan, his signature climate change policy.

• Even if Trump wins, victories can only be a black market in negotiations with Congress in which he could propose to extend DACA protection in exchange for increased border wall funding with Mexico.

But none of these reasons attracted as much attention as the "dreamers" themselves, many of whom came to America before they could walk or talk. About 80% of them are from Mexico. About 10% more came from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Nearly 200,000 live in California, another 100,000 in Texas

Included are Ivy League alumni and a South Korean scientist, Rhodes surgeon, orthopedic surgeon and Catholic priest. Apple alone employs 443 DACA recipients, including Kevin Gomez, a self-described technology guy.

Kevin Gomez, an Apple employee in Austin, Texas, is among those awaiting a Supreme Court decision on the Supreme Court. (Photo: Courtesy of Apple, Inc.)

"We are definitely not bad hommers" coming to the United States "to take jobs or just live outside the government," Gomez said in an interview at the Apple campus in Austin, citing a more malicious cartoon of illegal immigrants.

"Life-changing Consequences"

Few cases go to the Supreme Court, in which one party enjoys such endless support.

for the White House, but how it wins would be decisive. If the just claim that Trump has the same discretion to terminate the program Obama had when he was created, a future president could just as easily resume it. If they agree with the Department of Justice that it is illegal, Congress will have to intervene.

Opposing the administration are attorneys representing California, New York, the District of Columbia, and an array of "dreamers." Almost three dozen legal notices are represented on their side by groups representing big business, teachers, religious institutions, trade unions, law enforcement and national security, along with immigration and civic organizations.

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"There is no dispute that this decision has life changes for nearly 700,000 participants in DACA and their families," court officials said at the University of California.

the 2-year trial, the Dreamers were their best defenders. Ten of them left two weeks ago to walk from New York to Washington. Others flew from California, Texas and elsewhere to sit in court, to demonstrate outside, and to lobby members of Congress.

Among them will be Diego Corzo, who came from Peru 20 years ago to 9 years. Today, he is based in Austin, a three-state real estate investor and TEDx talk entitled "Can the American Dream Be Achieved If You Are Not an American Citizen?" [19659005] Corso vividly recalls Attorney General Jeff Session's 2017 message when he said that DACA "was denying jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans, allowing those same illegal aliens to take up those jobs.

"That sentence stayed with me," Corso, sitting at a local Starbucks, said. "He said I refuse to work for Americans. I said, 'No, my efforts made. ""

Not all undocumented immigrants await the Supreme Court's decision. Olga Kanastouy, 22, whose Guatemalan parents brought her from Mexico when she was 3, chose to be adopted by her uncle when he became a U.S. citizen. She now has a green card and three part-time jobs, runs an after-school program and teaches online English courses.

Adoption was the only solution for herself and her older brother, Kanastuy said during a lunch of tortillas and black beans. "DACA is very useful, but we are always looking for something more."